Scrimmage tie against Sacred Heart portends positive season outcome for B.B. girls’ soccer
September 4, 2024 at 11:03 p.m.
The long-awaited season for Blind Brook’s girls’ varsity soccer team has officially begun. The fall sport is one like no other that Blind Brook High School celebrates. Some would even say it is more popular than football.
The girls kicked off as the new and improved team they are aiming to be by tying in a scrimmage against The Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn. on Friday, Aug. 30. The game demonstrated how the new team that Coach Brian Sullivan built was going to be strong this soccer season.
With the scrimmage resulting in a 2-2 tie, the Trojans showed how the rest of the season could pan out with continuous success.
Last season the team was composed of many different players than this season. Many seniors graduated, and after tryouts Coach Sullivan implemented a variety of changes. The team's roster consists of 23 girls, which is more than last season.
Sophomore Sena Tarnoff is defended by senior Natalie Carey during a girls’ soccer training game on the new Blind Brook High School field on Saturday, Aug. 31.By Joseph DeCarlo
Each player showed why they were on that roster at the scrimmage against Sacred Heart.
In the first half, Blind Brook scored the first goal, causing much excitement to circle around the ginormous Sacred Heart campus. A free kick in from sophomore Lola Gonzalez resulted in the first scoring opportunity which was finished and scored by sophomore Skylar Sommers. The header goal gave hope to the team and kept them on their toes for the rest of the game.
The second goal was another unforgettable victory rendered by junior Kendall Konigsberg and finished by junior Captain Kayleigh Curran. In the second half, Konigsberg booted the ball from the wing leaving it to perfectly settle on Curran’s foot and then into the goal, making it another impossible save for the Sacred Heart goalie.
The goalie for the Trojans, senior Anna Vnenchak, did not play in the scrimmage on Friday due to a minor injury. She would be back as she was last season to back up the Trojan team and use her quick skills and goalie techniques for the first game on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at Haldane.
Meanwhile, on Friday junior Lily Wolf had to step in as goalie against Sacred Heart. She only allowed two goals and, with the help of the entire team, the game ended with a dogpile and a sense of teamwork from every player on the roster.
Unlike last year's first scrimmage, the team members right off the bat have shown a connection with each other on ways to work together and improve certain breaches in their game.
The scrimmage ultimately set a tone for how the season will go. With new Coach Sullivan now in the Blind Brook mix, there are a lot of differences and improvements just waiting to occur.
After Haldane, the Trojans would play their first home game vs Croton-Harmon on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 4:30 p.m. followed by another home contest against North Salem on Tuesday, Sept. 10 starting at 5 p.m.
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